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Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction

Title
Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction / Lisa Surridge.
Author
Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963-
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2005.

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xiv, 271 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-262) and index.
Contents
Private violence in the public eye: the early writings of Charles Dickens -- Domestic violence and middle-class manliness: Dombey and Son -- From Regency violence to Victorian feminism: The tenant of Wildfell Hall -- The abused woman and the community: "Janet's repentance" -- Strange revelations: the divorce court, the newspaper, and The woman in white -- The private eye and the public gaze: He knew he was right -- Marital violence and the new woman: The wing of Azrael -- "Are women protected?" Sherlock Holmes and the violent home.
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JFE 06-309
ISBN
  • 0821416421 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 082141643X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2005010296
OCLC
58985938
Author
Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963-
Title
Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction / Lisa Surridge.
Imprint
Athens : Ohio University Press, c2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-262) and index.
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JFE 06-309
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